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“I don’t need to read about what should come naturally,” I told my sister, after she insisted I pick up some dating books. I’d been swiping my way through the world of online dating, and my adventu…

And at the last, a war between magic and science that would leave the world in ashes. At the center of all this were a man and a woman, who were still children now. ― Charlie Jane Anders, All the B…

IF IT HAD another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney— that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny and I went every Easter time with Mummer, Farther, Mr and Mr…

Space was full of questions, life was a sentence always ending in an ellipsis or a question mark. You couldn’t answer everything. You could only believe there were answers at all. ― Lavie Tid…

This last weekend I was totally excited to fly out of a record-breaking desert heatwave in Arizona, and attend the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley, California. Big names and small presses came t…

Abby Geni’s The Lightkeepers is part Area X trilogy, with a swirl of And Then There Were None. It is a bit Jon Krakauer meets Alice Seobold. The novel takes place on the Farrallon Islands, a …

Fiona Barton's debut novel The Widow echoes Karin Slaughter's Pretty Girls, Stephen King's A Good Marriage, and Lisa Lutz's upcoming The Passenger. How well do we know anyone, especially those clos...

It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The old man had quite an elaborate theory concerning the matter. It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to him...

Really, who needs to read when you can go watch the movie version of these books? Just kidding. I always read the book first, then go see the movie. High Rise, based on the novel by J. G. Ballard S...

Without the dark there isn’t light. Without the pain there is no relief. And I remind myself that I’m lucky to be able to feel such great sorrow, and also such great happiness. I can grab on to eac...

I started listening to Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale on audiobook and stopped several times this year. I would get through the first few chapters, as an older woman relays a tough childhood in F...

People are hard on Jennifer Weiner. I'm probably too hard on Jennifer Weiner. She speaks up for her genre, those books that the literati cast aside as chick-lit. She speaks out against guys like Jo...

Karin Slaughter is legit. I say this having only read one of her huge Will Trent/Grant County series, Criminal, which didn't totally blow me away. Where I did fall in love with that story was in it...

For what Carmine Cicciaro had learned by then, and I suppose I had, too, concerned not only the baffling multiplicity of all things, but also their no less baffling integration. No amount of art, e...